When stories come from your own hometown they can’t be ignored. I have two kids, both in camp, nothing infuriates me more than people putting kids in harms way!
Report: Ohio camps aren’t checking up on employees
Published on Sunday Jul 06, 2008
Just 42 percent of summer day camps surveyed by the state’s Department of Job and Family Services have completed mandatory background checks of employees, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
But camps that fail to carry out the checks have little to fear. The state’s Department of Job and Family Services has little recourse, since there’s no real punishment provision in the state law that requires the checks, department spokesman Dennis Evans said.
Department employees last month polled 96 of the state’s approximately 250 children’s day camps, 70 more than it checked a year ago when the department found that nine of 26 camps had not completed the required checks, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
[...] is a very timely article considering I just wrote about background checks at camps this morning. This article comes from the Wall Street Journal. People we pay to keep our children [...]